Among other changes slipped in over the weekend, as currently re-drafted detainees would be allowed to "respond" to evidence, but not examine it; judicial review via habeas corpus would be abolished; and American citizens, as well as enemy foreigners, who are arrested would be denied due process of law for as long as the "war on terror" persists.
Thus will American democracy die: not by the sword, but by a stroke of the pen.
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"Thus will American Democracy die"...
Are you kidding? This hasn't been a "free" country for quite sometime now. Our freedoms have been slowly but consistantly eroding away for years. We teach our kids and remind ourselves over and over that we live in a free country. We have brainwashed ourselves so thoroughly that we actually become surprised when our courts take away a family home in order to bulldoze it for condo's that will bring in more tax revenue for the city. We are surprized, angered, perplexed and then after a few days we start ranting again that we are truely living in a free country. We haven't been free for a long time.
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